Doctor Caroline Morbach

Doctor Caroline Morbach

University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg (Germany)

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PD Dr. Morbach has been interested in echocardiography for a long time. She did her doctoral thesis on contrast enhanced stress echocardiography, persued an intensive training in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography during her residency and had the opportunity to spend three years as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Echo Lab of Professor Lissa Sugeng at the Yale New Haven Hospital, getting sound insights into 3D echocardiography. Now, she works as senior clinician scientist at the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center in Wuerzburg, combining her clinical and scientic activities in echocardiography and heart failure, and serves as head of the Academic Core Lab Ultrasound-based Cardiovascular Imaging. Her areas of expertise are determinants and course of the early stages of heart failure in the general population, early diagnosis and assessment of disease severity and treatment response in cardiac amyloidosis, terminal heart failure and quality assurance in echocardiography